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  1. ME/CFS Skeptic

    Why do doctors use treatments that do not work? Doust & Del Mar, 2005

    Thought this was an interesting editorial. It's from 2004 but is still relevant. Source: http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC351829&blobtype=pdf
  2. ME/CFS Skeptic

    What’s in the pipeline? Ongoing, registered, or planned clinical trials for ME/CFS

    Evelien and I were interested in what clinical trials are currently planned or ongoing for ME/CFS. It can take many years to conduct a clinical trial and report the results, so we wanted to know what we can expect to come out in the next years. A search of databases that register clinical...
  3. Andy

    Effects of the prolong life with nine turn method (Yan Nian Jiu Zhuan) Qigong on patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, 2018, Xie et al

    Full title: Effects of the prolong life with nine turn method (Yan Nian Jiu Zhuan) Qigong on patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Open access PDF available from http://apm.amegroups.com/article/view/48615
  4. Andy

    Recruiting Adolescents With [CFS/ME] to Internet-Delivered Therapy: Internal Pilot Within a Randomized Controlled Trial, 2020, Knoop, Crawley et al

    Full title: Recruiting Adolescents With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis to Internet-Delivered Therapy: Internal Pilot Within a Randomized Controlled Trial Open access, https://www.jmir.org/2020/8/e17768/
  5. Grigor

    Protocol ReCOVer: A RCT testing the efficacy of CBT for preventing chronic post-infectious fatigue among patients diagnosed with COVID-19.

    Very troubling study by prof Knoop et al. "ONDERZOEKSVRAAG To investigate whether delivering timely Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [CBT], an evidence-based treatment for chronic fatigue, is effective in preventing the development of post-COVID-19 chronic fatigue. URGENTIE A substantial...
  6. Sly Saint

    Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions to Improve Quality of Life in People With Long-Term Conditions: Rapid Systematic Review of RCTs - 2018

    Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions to Improve Quality of Life in People With Long-Term Conditions: Rapid Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials Niall Anderson 1 2 , Gozde Ozakinci 3 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29587884/ eta: posted this study as is basis of...
  7. Sly Saint

    Cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with dissociative seizures (CODES): a ... multicentre, randomised controlled trial (2020) Goldstein, Chalder

    CODEs study group ProfLaura HGoldsteinPhDaEmily JRobinsonMScbgJohn D CMellersMRCPsychhProfJonStonePhDiProfAlanCarsonMDiProfMarkusReuberPhDjNickMedfordPhDhProfPaulMcCronePhDcJoannaMurrayBAdProfMark...
  8. Sly Saint

    The feasibility and acceptability of an early intervention in primary care to prevent CFS in adults: randomised controlled-O'Dowd, Crawley 2020

    The feasibility and acceptability of an early intervention in primary care to prevent chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in adults: randomised controlled trial https://pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40814-020-00595-0
  9. cassava7

    OMF to launch clinical trials on Mestinon & Kynurenine, post-COVID19 study

    From their May Momentum 2020 newsletter & https://www.omf.ngo/maymomentum/ Post-COVID19 study: https://www.omf.ngo/2020/04/26/tracking-covid-19-patients/ Mestinon trial: https://www.omf.ngo/2020/04/26/the-mestinon-clinical-trial-for-me-cfs/ &...
  10. Dolphin

    A qualitative exploration of treatment preference in paediatric randomised controlled trials, 2019, Beasant (Crawley supervised)

    via Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks Source: University of Bristol Date: November 28, 2019 URL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/theses/a-qualitative-exploration-of-treatment-preference-in-paediatric-randomised-controlled-trials(e6ff1d3b-e315-45e2-a4da-18ae0b414a1d).html...
  11. Andy

    Achieving symptom relief in patients with ME by targeting the neuro-immune interface and inducing disease tolerance (2020) Rodriguez et al

    Pre-print, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.958249v1 April 2023 - now published, see here Achieving symptom relief in patients with ME by targeting the neuro-immune interface and inducing disease tolerance (2020) Rodriguez et al ETA: Added word, "Pre-print".
  12. Dolphin

    Medicinal Herbs for Managing Fatigue Symptoms in Patients with Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue, 2020, Kim

    Looks like CFS may have been looked at in this. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1876382019314076 View full text © 2020 Published by Elsevier GmbH.
  13. Hutan

    A randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blinded trial of duloxetine in the treatment of general fatigue in CFS, 2014, Arnold et al. Cymbalta

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033318214001935?via%3Dihub https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psym.2014.12.003 Lesley Arnold, Thomas Blom, Jeffrey Welge, Elizabeth Mariutto, Alicia Heller Women’s Health Research Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience...
  14. Sly Saint

    Systematic review of randomized controlled trials for (CFS/ME) - Do-Young Kim et al Jan 2020

    Systematic review of randomized controlled trials for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) full paper https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-019-02196-9
  15. Sly Saint

    Psychosomatic therapy for patients frequently attending primary care with MUS,the CORPUS trial: study protocol for an RCT-Wortman et al 2019

    Psychosomatic therapy for patients frequently attending primary care with medically unexplained symptoms, the CORPUS trial: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial Open access, published Dec 2019 Trial status The protocol version number and date: version 10, 8 May 2018. Patient...
  16. Sly Saint

    Risk of bias tools in systematic reviews of health interventions: an analysis of PROSPERO-registered protocols - Farrah,Young,Tunis,Zhao Nov 2019

    full paper here https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-019-1172-8
  17. Kalliope

    Open Norway: Haukeland university hospital (Fluge/Mella) seeking ME-patients nearby Bergen to wear fitbit for 6 months

    Activity registration in ME/CFS Would you like to be part of developing new methods for future clinical trials? We are seeking participants for a study to test the activity device Fitbit Charge 3 for measurement of physical activity in patients with ME/CFS. The study doesn't entail any...
  18. Andy

    The Efficacy and Safety of Myelophil, [..] , for [CFS]: A Randomized Clinical Trial, 2019, Joung et al

    Full title: The Efficacy and Safety of Myelophil, an Ethanol Extract Mixture of Astragali Radix and Salviae Radix, for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2019.00991/full I'm dubious about the value of this paper...
  19. Andy

    The effect of Delphinium denudatum (Jadwar) on fatigue: A randomized double blind placebo-controlled clinical trial, 2019, Daneshfard et al

    I know that fatigue≠ME/CFS but maybe the study might be of some use, possibly (I doubt it but you never know). Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965229919301542 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.ctim.2019.05.027
  20. Andy

    Evaluation of spin in abstracts of papers in psychiatry and psychology journals, 2019, Jellison et al

    Open access at https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/04/bmjebm-2019-111176#T2
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